John Butler Movies

A California railroad agent hunts two brothers for murder and robbing a payroll express.

A newspaper editor takes on the cause of oppressed migrant Mexican fruit pickers.

Blind detective Duncan Maclain gets mixed up with enemy agents and murder when he tries to help an old friend with a rebellious stepdaughter.

A scrupulously honest lawyer discovers that the client he's gotten off was really guilty.

An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.

An insurance agent's greedy girlfriend with a taste for mink leads him to a life of crime.

A young girl is left with the notoriously cheap Sorrowful Jones as a marker for a bet. When her father doesn't return, he learns that taking care of...

A gunfighter takes part in a scheme to bilk a wealthy cattle family out of half a million dollars by pretending to be their son, who was kidnapped as...

This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short shows the role the crime laboratory plays in the solving of cases, and how even the smallest detail can...

A man involved in a crime (Nolan) kills his key witness by mistake and resigns himself to death. He changes his name so as not to harm his family....

A Navy veteran with one leg fights to make himself a success.

A singing cowboy turns out to be a tenderfoot.

Pirdy is accident prone. He has been denied insurance from every company in town because he is always getting hit or hurt in some way. On the day...

Small-town soda-jerk Peggy Evans quits her dead-end job and moves to New York where she invents a new identity.

Torchy conducts a one woman campaign against a corrupt mayor and crime boss, and when the reform candidate is murdered, she takes up the banner.

A man violates company policy by getting married.

Magazine editor Margot Merrick pretends to be married in order to avoid advances from male colleagues. Unfortunately, things don't go to plan when...

During a heated argument with her sister Joan, Gail discovers the shocking news that she is adopted. With the reluctant support of her adoptive...

A prison warden fights to prove one of his inmates was wrongly convicted.

Starting in 1913 movie director Connors discovers singer Molly Adair. As she becomes a star she marries an actor, so Connors fires them. She asks for...